A detached autograph album leaf (165 × 195 mm) signed in pencil by the MCC touring team to Australia at the time of the First Test in Brisbane, 29-30 November and 2-4 December 1946 - the first post-war Test, and the first English visit for ten years
The signatures are Hammond (Captain), Alec Bedser, Edrich, Evans, Fishlock, Gibb, Hardstaff, Hutton, Ikin, Langridge, Pollard, T. (Peter) Smith, Voce, Washbrook, Wright and Yardley (plus the manager, Major R. Howard); only Compton is missing. 'Hammond led a team of great experience, although many players were in the twilight of their..... More